Monday, December 23, 2019

Two sobering stories out of far northern, coastal California

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Tsunami Hazard Zone sign along Highway 1 in Sonoma County, California (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2019 The first  of the stories I want to highl...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Poignant feature on rural aging and health care

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Eli Saslow  reports  for the  Washington Post  from  Broken Bow (population 3,559 ) and Cozad, Nebraska ( population 3,997 ).  Broken Bow is...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Rural jail boom surges back into the news

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Two Bridges Regional Jail, near Wiscasset, Maine, May, 2019 (c) Lisa R. Pruitt I've written previously about the nation's rural ...
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Outsourcing policing to cameras and lay folk, in rural southern Oregon

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I've written in the past about the challenges of rural policing (read more  here from 2013) , and I've also written about the fiscal...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

On college fairs in rural America (where they are rare, special, valued, and highly valuable)

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I loved this piece from Eric Hoover in the Chronicle of Higher Education  last week.  It's set in northern Arizona, with the college f...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

From The Atlantic, on the rural mental health crisis

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See James Burns' short documentary  here , out of Cochise County, Arizona, population 131,346 and covering an area the size of Connecti...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

More on Dollar General's expansion (which is putting rural grocery stores out of business)

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A shuttered grocery store in Smith River, California (Del Norte County).  A Dollar General Store is in business a few hundred yards away (...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The difference broadband makes in one Appalachian town

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Don't miss The New Yorker' s story out of McKee, Kentucky, population 800 , on the impact of superior broadband on one rural commun...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

Two big features on how small rural farms are no longer financially viable

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One is from Alana Semuels in this week's Time Magazine , and the other is from the New York Times Sunday paper, compliments of journali...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Literary Ruralism (Part XVIII): Country Music (with a focus on forgotten rural folks)

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I like this passage from Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan's book, Country Music , where they write of "Fiddlin' John" Carson p...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Rural-urban tussle over gun rights in Virginia

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The Washington Post reports today  over a looming conflict between rural county sheriffs and newly elected state legislators, who are expec...